Overall Green alert Flood for Afghanistan
in Afghanistan

Flood impact summary

Flood Afghanistan is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID: 1100857
Deaths: 32
Displaced: 3000
Region: Afghanistan
Countries: Afghanistan
From - To 02 May - 12 May
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

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Impact Assessement as of 04-05-2021

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 26 Afghanistan Afghanistan
death 6 Afghanistan Takhar Province
missing 10 Afghanistan Afghanistan
SENDAI Indicator B N Country Location Info
displaced 3000 Afghanistan Takhar Province
SENDAI Indicator C N Country Location Info
houses damaged 197 Afghanistan Afghanistan
houses destroyed 44 Afghanistan Afghanistan

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2021-04-25 / 2021-05-19  

Sunday 25/04Monday 26/04Tuesday 27/04Wednesday 28/04Thursday 29/04Friday 30/04Saturday 01/05Sunday 02/05Monday 03/05Tuesday 04/05Wednesday 05/05Thursday 06/05Friday 07/05Saturday 08/05Sunday 09/05Monday 10/05Tuesday 11/05Wednesday 12/05Thursday 13/05Friday 14/05Saturday 15/05Sunday 16/05Monday 17/05Tuesday 18/05Wednesday 19/05

Timeline of revisions

For accessing reports of previous advisories, please click on the advisory number in the table below.

IDAlert ColorPopulation affectedStart DateEnd DateSource
1 26 deaths 02 May 2021 04 May 2021 GLOFAS
2 6 deaths and 3000 displaced 10 May 2021 12 May 2021 GLOFAS

Flood polygons

This polygon (translucent blue with a blue border) is drawn by the analysts recording the flood event. It is meant to include all the areas reported as affected, by official source or the media. It does not represent the area actually under water.

Microwave flood detection

Flooded area, as detected in microwaves by the Global Flood Detection System of the JRC, based on NASA TRMM/GPM observations. This system has a rather low resolution (of 5-10km) but is not affected by clouds.
For more details, see http://www.unisdr.org/files/9622_LBNA23303ENC002.pdf.
The areas with a flood signal along the coast are an artefact of the system and should not be considered.

Optical Flood detection

Flooded area as detected in optical wavelengths by NASA/MODIS, known as "MODIS Flood Product". Data are made available by NASA GSFC Flood Mapping Project, http://oas.gsfc.nasa.gov/floodmap/index.html. Resolution of 250m, heavily affected by cloud cover.